Faculty

Kelvin Santiago-Valles

Research and teaching interests have focused on global labor-racial formation, political
economy, and social regulation in the world-system. His first book was "Subject People" and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder
in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), is currently finishing
two book manuscripts: one tentatively titled "Race," Labor, and Empire: Global-Racial Regimes in the Historical Long-Term and the other tentatively titled Race-Making in World-Historical Perspective: Social Regulation in the Spanish Atlantic,
1650-1870.He has also published numerous book chapters and journal articles, as well as taught
courses, that address: regulatory apparatuses (penal discipline in particular); the
multiple social resistances to hegemonic forms of domination and exploitation (especially,
the criminal justice system); worldwide structures of meaning and the conceptual-methodological
frameworks used to study such structures; Caribbean, Latin American, and U.S. Latina/o
studies; the African diaspora and critical race theories/critical legal studies; urban
studies, visual culture, and the social production of space; as well as gender and
sexuality; all this from long-term/large-scale perspectives.

Recent Courses:

Theoretical Studies

Structural Inequalities

Social Movements

Law and Society

Slavery, Race, and Culture

Recent Publications:

"American Penal Forms and Colonial-Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin-de-Siecle
Puerto Rico", in Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds., Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), 87-94.

"The Fin-de-Siecles of Great Britain and the United States: Comparing Two Declining
Phases of Global Capitalist Hegemony," forthcoming in Alfred McCoy, ed., Endless Empire(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011).

"The Imagined Republic of Puerto Rican Populism in World-Historical Context: The Poetics
of Plantation Fantasies and the Petit-Coloniality of Criollo Blanchitude, 1914-1948," in Jerome Branche, ed., Race, Colonialism, and Social Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008), 59-90.

"'Our Race Today [Is] the Only Hope for the World': An African Spaniard as Chieftain
of the Struggle Against 'Sugar Slavery' in Puerto Rico, 1926-1934," Caribbean Studies, vol. 35, no.1 (January-June, 2007): 107-140.

"Social Polarization and Colonized Labor: Puerto Ricans in the United States, 1945-2000,"
co-authored with Gladys M. Jiménez-Munoz, David Gutiérrez, ed., The Columbia History of Latinos in the United States, 1960 to the Present (NYC: Columbia University Press, 2004), 62-149.

"Some Notes on 'Race,' Coloniality, and the Question of History Among Puerto Ricans"
in Carole Boyce-Davies, ed., Decolonizing the Academy: Diaspora Theory and African-New World Studies (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003), 217-234.